Week 3: Learn

Writing assignment 1: Reflect: How do I Think I Learn?

Spend 15 minutes in class/or as a part of homework free-writing on the following questions:
How do you think you learn? Were you surprised by the short learning style assessment you took this unit? What surprised you? If you were not surprised, what in your past experiences made you know you were dominant in the areas in which you tested strongly?

2. Exercise 1: Assess: Your Personal Learning Style and Personality Profile

Task 1:
To access READI:
• Go to http://www.readi.info/itt
• Enter into one of the individual assessments to begin.
• First-time User to READI, enter the code: ITT12345.
• Complete the registration information.
• Once you have initially logged into READI you will be issued and e-mailed a unique PIN. Your unique PIN, along with your Email address will expedite your login as you return to your READI assessments or begin new ones. You do not have to wait for your PIN to be e-mailed to you to complete your first assessment.
Take the Learning Style Assessment in READI.

Task 2:
Take the Personality Style test from SAL.
To re-visit SAL: Go to http://www.prenhall.com/sal. Click on Log in to Self-Assessment Library. Follow the prompts under the Returning Users section by entering your personal login name and password to return to your SAL assessments.
After entering the SAL, go to Assessments drop-down menu

Choose What about me? > Personality Insights
What’s My Basic Personality?
What’s My Jungian 16-Type Personality?
Am I Type-A?

3. Analysis 1: Plan: My Learning Style + My Personality x Focus and Effort = SUCCESS

Introduction:
Taking personality and learning style assessments can really be fun because it’s exciting to get to know yourself better. You might have been surprised at some of the outcomes. What’s really important is that you now think about maximizing your strengths in college and beyond.
That’s a big task and not one you can do overnight, though!
The first step is to get a handle on what any of this even means to you now.
Use the following worksheet available at this link.
Task 1:
Look carefully at your Learning Styles Assessment and Personality Assessments.
Write your dominant learning style and second-favorite learning style in the boxes on the left.
Next to them, write your personality traits.
Looking at these in one place, start to think of them as parts of an equation. Think of how you can maximize your dominant learning style and your personality in a successful learning strategy.

Next, think about your LEAST-favorite learning style. Then, think about your personality and how you think you can best overcome your weaknesses in this area, maximizing your personality traits to their highest potential.

4. Project 1: Apply: Visualize Your Best Self

Introduction:
You have spent a little time in this unit assessing your dominant learning styles and personality traits that influence the way you learn best. You put together a worksheet that shows your learning style personality equation.
That’s a fine first step. However, a long-term strategy for learning that maximizes your strengths and improves on your weaker areas is critical to your academic and professional success in the future.
A good way to succeed in a lot of areas is first to visualize yourself succeeding. Many top athletes say they have seen themselves winning before they in fact made that dunk shot or scored that serving ace.
So, the Assess assignment this unit asks you to do precisely this: visualize yourself using your strengths and improving your weak areas, and tell some other people about this vision!
You will also get the opportunity to use your dominant learning style in the assignment option you choose this unit. Let’s get started!

Task 1:

You get a choice from two options this unit! You have just learned how many ways there are to
learn the same material. Visual learners love charts and graphs; verbal learners prefer to take notes. Interpersonal learners love to work in groups, and intrapersonal learners might prefer to study alone and check in later.
So, this unit, choose the assignment approach that best suits your learning style. You don’t have to choose the style that the assessment revealed, necessarily. It’s okay to use an approach that you think you might like as well, or one that you’d like to explore.
Here are your options. Choose only one.

OPTION 1: Write about yourself

Write three or four paragraphs addressing the following questions:
a. What type of learning style do I exhibit the most? How did I develop this learning style? (Questions to get you started: Was your mom or dad the same kind of learner? Did your grade school teacher emphasize this learning style, or were you just "born this way?")
b. When you thought about entering your program of study at ITT Tech, did your dominant learning style have anything to do with your choice, now that you think about it? How do you think your dominant interests and dominant learning styles are connected?
c. Name the most positive aspect of your learning style and dominant personality that you think will help you succeed in your ITT Tech career. Explain why and how. Focus on the positive!

OPTION 2: Present Yourself
Create a learning style and personality development flow chart or another type of visual series.
o Starting with your childhood, draw or map out in a flowchart how you see the progression of the development of your personality and learning style. You can use a cartoon-like approach if you like to draw.

o If you think certain traits were with you at birth, indicate this visually. (You can show a baby in a crib with a calculator, if you were math-inclined since birth!)

o The chart or series of drawings with captions should take you from childhood through your decision to attend ITT Tech.

o You can show positive and negative experiences, those "Aha!" moments you may have had in school or in adult life that made you realize your interest in your program of study.

o The last frame or piece of your flowchart should "visualize you being successful." Show a scene of YOU succeeding, and indicate visually or in a caption beneath what elements came together in this vision. How did you maximize your best personality and learning style in a great moment?
Delivery of this Unit’s Assignments:
By this point, you should have gained enough familiarity with Word to complete your assignments using it.

Use Arial 12 point font, non-bold, double-spaced with spaces between questions or paragraphs.
Attach your reflection from the Writing Assignment and your assessment reports from the Exercise. In addition, attach your flow chart template for the Analysis and the responses to the Project.

Check it First!
Did you…??
o Complete the Learning Styles assessment in READI?
o Complete the personality assessments from SAL?
o Print all Reports?
o Fill out and turn in your Learning Styles + Personality = Success worksheet?
o Choose ONE of two options under Assess, and turn in to your Instructor in a Word document?
o Answer the questions thoroughly and honestly?
o Have a peer, friend, or mentor read your responses before submitting?
If you can check all of these, you have completed your assignment. Good work!